Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

